The Dead C - Trouble 2xLP

Our Review: The Dead C continue their immensely gratifying third act with Trouble, a double-LP which extends their nearly decade-long working relationship with New York City's Ba Da Bing label, home of the New Zealand trio's last full-length studio effort, 2013's Armed Courage. Eschewing a penchant for some of the greatest song titles in recent memory – e.g. "This Century Sucks" and "Permanent LSD" from 2014's epic 4LP live collection, The Twelfth Spectacle, or "The AMM Of Punk Rock" from 2007's Future Artists – Trouble comprises four side-long tracks and a short excursion into wasted, primitive doom metal that have been given numbers (1 through 5, though not exactly sequential) rather than names, further evidence of The Dead C's bloodyminded, elemental approach. Trouble begins with Bruce Russell and Michael Morley's snarling, dissonant guitar tones, laid over muffled, swirling pulses of what sounds for all the world like an Echoplex at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, while Robbie Ye